Steven A. Augustino
Steve Augustino is with Kelley Drye's Washington, DC office and focuses his practice on telecommunications and video gaming matters.
Steve represents all types of telecommunications service providers, including competitive local carriers, VoIP providers and prepaid calling card providers. His work for these clients includes negotiating interconnection agreements, representing carriers in interconnection arbitration proceedings and advising on rulemaking proceedings. Steve has experience defending clients in FCC enforcement actions, including Universal Service Fund (USF) compliance investigations and Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) reporting audits. He has negotiated a dozen settlements with the FCC over customer proprietary network information (CPNI), payphone compensation, fax marketing, slamming, “fat finger dialing” and other carrier marketing practices. Steve has led numerous national coalitions in pursuing public policy decisions favorable to competitive providers’ business plans.
With over 15 years of experience representing innovative content and service providers, Steve added a gaming concentration to his practice in 2006, specifically geared towards addressing mobile and broadband access issues affecting video game developers and publishers. His experience in the gaming industry helps online and mobile gaming companies meet the business and legal challenges brought on by the intersection of gaming and communications policy in the United States.
